Scientific Outreach and DEI Lead in the Discovery Partner Institute University of Illinois Chicago Visiting Research Professor in the HUBzero team University of California, San Diego Member of the Leadership team in the program National Model for Long-Term Support of High-Potential Kids in Unstable Housing Chicago Hopes for Kids, 4 Foundations Division
My research focuses on science gateways, computational workflows as well as distributed and parallel computing which inherently leads to highly interdisciplinary projects. I am the DPI Team Lead on the Wastewater Epidemiology project, for example. I am especially interested in sustainability of research software, usability of computational methods and reproducibility of research results and I support open science initiatives, i.e., I am an academic editor of PeerJ Computer Science and Frontiers. Sustainabil
Prior to the position at DPI, I was an associate research professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a computational scientist in the Center for Research Computing at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US. Before I moved to the US, I was a research associate in the Data-Intensive Research Group at the University of Edinburgh, UK, in the area of data-intensive workflows and in the Applied Bioinformatics Group at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in the area of science gateways